[SLUG] Second LTSP Server - progress but need help still

2004-05-24 Thread Simon Bryan
On Thu, May 20, 2004 3:52 pm, Simon Bryan said: Hi all, I wnat to start sharing the load of my thin clients between two servers. We currently bhave one running RH7.2 and LTSP2. I have setup a second server running FC1 and LTSP4 (and installed the kernel from LTSP3 as suggested) The first

Re: [SLUG] XF86Config in Fedora Core 2

2004-05-24 Thread James Gregory
On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 15:43 +1000, Andrew Bennetts wrote: On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 03:10:21PM +0930, Luke (Terry) Vanderfluit wrote: Hi, Sheesh, I was planning to start using fedora as soon as core 2 came out (currently I'm running Redhat 9) but I have a video card with an nvidia

Re: [SLUG] SATA, hdparm raid resync

2004-05-24 Thread Glen Turner
On Sat, 2004-05-22 at 08:43, David Kempe wrote: Hey anyone have a simple explanation for this phenomenom? Yep. RAID re-sync is deliberately limited. The idea being that disk performance isn't affected too greatly whilst re-syncing the drive (so your application stays running, the reason you

[SLUG] Re: Fedora 2 and Nvidia

2004-05-24 Thread bill
I just installed Fedora Core 2 this AM and I have no trouble with the NVidia video card - admittedly I haven't ever bothered with NVidia drivers unless they are included in the distro, such as Xandros 2 (also installed - different PC - different Nvidea card). Knoppix 3.4 with Kernel 2.6.x also

Re: [SLUG] Re: Fedora 2 and Nvidia

2004-05-24 Thread Mike MacCana
On Mon, 24 May 2004, bill wrote: I just installed Fedora Core 2 this AM and I have no trouble with the NVidia video card - admittedly I haven't ever bothered with NVidia drivers unless they are included in the distro, such as Xandros 2 (also installed - different PC - different Nvidea card).

Re: [SLUG] Multi-function thingummies

2004-05-24 Thread Ken Foskey
On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 13:58, Matthew Davidson wrote: Are these things to avoid, or can anybody recommend a model that actually works with CUPS/SANE? One thing to consider is that CPU processing. A lot of the non-supported MF systems are not supported because a lot of the functionality of the

Re: [SLUG] Intro and a question

2004-05-24 Thread Heracles
On Sun, 2004-05-23 at 18:31, Gary Bennett wrote: Hello, I subbed to SLUG last weekend, have read along for the week and thought it about time to introduce myself. snip In the next month or so I'm planning to buy a new machine. My current thinking is for a P4 2.8GHz processor with 512MB

Re: [SLUG] Boot hangs at 'Starting Samba daemons: nmbd smbd'

2004-05-24 Thread Heracles
On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 20:48, Adam Felix Bogacki wrote: Thanks Mary, I tried typing Linux init=/bin/sh at the LILO prompt and it booted without all the bells whistles, but when I tried 'vi' or 'apt-get' I was told they were unknown commands. I had thought I might try changing

Re: [SLUG] XF86Config in Fedora Core 2

2004-05-24 Thread Simon Males
Lyle Chapman wrote: Has anybody got the same problem? I have just upgraded to Fedora Core 2 and have installed the nvidia drivers. I cannot find the file XF86Config the closest file is xorg.conf which has the same information. I have tried adding the driver line for nvidia but it hangs the

Re: [SLUG] Boot hangs at 'Starting Samba daemons: nmbd smbd'

2004-05-24 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Mon, May 24, 2004, Adam Felix Bogacki wrote: I tried typing Linux init=/bin/sh at the LILO prompt and it booted without all the bells whistles, but when I tried 'vi' or 'apt-get' I was told they were unknown commands. I had thought I might try changing '/etc/apt/sources.list' to testing

Re: [SLUG] SATA, hdparm raid resync

2004-05-24 Thread David Kempe
Glen Turner wrote: Yep. RAID re-sync is deliberately limited. The idea being that disk performance isn't affected too greatly whilst re-syncing the drive (so your application stays running, the reason you RAIDed in the first place). Under Linux 2.4 see proc/sys/dev/raid/speed_limit_max makes sense

[SLUG] (Commercial) Tux Sticker

2004-05-24 Thread slug . miguel
From Montreal Canada, hello to Sydney LUG! Having seen many Mac stickers on car's bumber, I thought that I could, me too, show what my colors are on my car. I searched on the internet to find a Tux sticker, this sympathetic antarctic animal. I was amazed and a bit sad when I discovered that

xorg.conf! (Re: [SLUG] XF86Config in Fedora Core 2)

2004-05-24 Thread Assassin
Lyle, not answering your question, (ati radeon user). But I'd just like to say how pathetically grateful I am that we finally have a config file that is not mixed case. vi /etc/X11/Xtab vi /etc/X11/Xftab [EMAIL PROTECTED]%!@# vi /etc/X11/XFtab yes!! -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing

Re: xorg.conf! (Re: [SLUG] XF86Config in Fedora Core 2)

2004-05-24 Thread Mike MacCana
On Tue, 25 May 2004, Assassin wrote: Lyle, not answering your question, (ati radeon user). But I'd just like to say how pathetically grateful I am that we finally have a config file that is not mixed case. vi /etc/X11/Xtab vi /etc/X11/Xftab [EMAIL PROTECTED]%!@# vi /etc/X11/XFtab

[SLUG] Regional Users' Group

2004-05-24 Thread Matthew Davidson
Hi, I've just moved out of Sydney to a regional area (Coffs Harbour), where there is no even remotely local (ooh, what a fab oxymoron) LUG that I can find. There seems to have been one some years ago which has presumably withered and died, leaving no trace beyond 404 errors and bouncing

Re: [SLUG] Regional Users' Group

2004-05-24 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Mon, May 24, 2004, Matthew Davidson wrote: So I have no alternative but to start one myself. Perhaps this discussion belongs on slug-chat (to which I am not subscribed), but I'd welcome any suggestions about how to go about this, or offers of assistance. I've read the LUG HOWTO, and

Re: [SLUG] Regional Users' Group

2004-05-24 Thread Terry Collins
Matthew Davidson wrote: ...snip. So I have no alternative but to start one myself. Biggest problem is venue. so unless you have the facilities where you live and are happy to have people there (and do not mind the security risk), then I would go whereever you can get free venue. Anything

RE: [SLUG] Regional Users' Group

2004-05-24 Thread Roger Barnes
One thing that occurred to me is that it might be better to set up a free software users' group, rather than a Linux one Probably a good idea given the smaller population base. I'd suggest that you be wary of what you call and how you promote such a group, since the term free software is

[SLUG] Re. Boot hung on 'Starting Samba daemons: nmbd smbd'

2004-05-24 Thread Adam Bogacki
Yee Haa ! it worked like a charm. I mounted /usr and /var and deleted samba although I have not been able to reinstall it under either testing or unstable due to dependency problems. According to error messages, it depends on samba-common 2.* but 3.* is installed. Nevertheless, I

Re: [SLUG] Regional Users' Group

2004-05-24 Thread mlh
On Tue, May 25, 2004 at 12:05:14PM +1000, Terry Collins wrote: Biggest problem is venue. so unless you have the facilities where you My suggestion is to find a bowlo club or similar. They're often grateful to get even a small amount of extra business, and they have food/drink and function

Re: [SLUG] Re. Boot hung on 'Starting Samba daemons: nmbd smbd'

2004-05-24 Thread Mary Gardiner
On Tue, May 25, 2004, Adam Bogacki wrote: Yee Haa ! it worked like a charm. Great! You will probably want to keep an eye on http://bugs.debian.org/samba for an update to your particular bug (although there's a bunch of Grave bugs there, and I didn't look long enough to work out which

[SLUG] SLUG Codefest (and Debian RC bug squish): Sat 29th May, University of Sydney

2004-05-24 Thread Mary Gardiner
SLUG and SLUG's Debian Special Interest Group are having a codefest this Saturday 29th May: -- What -- SLUG Codefests are informal hacking days. Bring yourself, a computer and some ideas for things to hack on. The day will feature: - Hacking talks (Ben Leslie, Jamie Wilkinson, Del...) -

[SLUG] How to use screen to get a text dump of an interactive session.

2004-05-24 Thread Michael Lake
Hi all I have been using screen to get multiple screens but I read that it can be used to get a text dump of a session. But I havent found detailed instructions for that or a tutorial. Reading the man pages sugggests that somehow I attach to an other process that would dump the output but its

Re: [SLUG] How to use screen to get a text dump of an interactive session.

2004-05-24 Thread Jeff Waugh
quote who=Michael Lake I have been using screen to get multiple screens but I read that it can be used to get a text dump of a session. Sounds like script, not screen. Reading the man pages sugggests that somehow I attach to an other process that would dump the output but its not clear.